Limited edition of the standard soundtrack that includes a booklet with photos and lyrics.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Trilogy Set

2003

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2003
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Reprise Records

In 2003, once the trilogy have been completed, the soundtrack was released in a Trilogy Set together with the soundtracks of The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

REVIEW

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (ENGLISH)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(Howard Shore). Three discs with the complete score, a DVD with the complete score into high quality of sound, a booklet with great and detailed information, besides an exceptional packaging turn The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - The Complete Recordings in one of the best editions ever created.

Before being able to listen to the magnificent music that Howard Shore was creating for the first chapter of the trilogy of the Rings, already an exceptional work can be guessed in the confection of the edition just observing the exterior box, the interior box that contains the discs and the detailed booklet, decorated all in the background with the map of the Middle-Earth.

Apart from a few general notes, the booklet contains information that analyzes in depth Shore's music, beside being splashed with photographies and staffs with the analyzed melodies. It starts by analyzing the different leitmotifs of the different subject matters that present the musical universe of the Middle-Earth. And it includes main and secondary themes analyzed with musical terminology, with some explanatory notes for help to the layman in the matter, and locating them in track, minute and second in order that the listener - reader could follow the exhaustive analysis listening to the corresponding musical moment.

It continues analyzing the themes associated with The One Ring (The History of the Ring, The Seduction of the Ring, The Evil of the Ring), locating them in track and second, besides explaining their thematic relationships. The analysis continues with the music of The Shire and The Hobbits, Gollum, the Elves, the Dwarves, The World of Men, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Monsters of Middle-Earth (including the themes of the musical moments of The Watcher in the Water (the creature that the Fellowship meets at the doors of Moria), The Cave Troll and The Barlog (both enemies whom the protagonists face inside Moria's caverns)).

Isengard and the Orcs, Mordor, Nature and Middle-Earth are other subject matters analyzed in depth, showing the diverse themes that shape the musical set of each one.

A very interesting content of this edition and one that normally does not find out in the extension it deserves is that of the used instruments for every character or theme, as well as the performers (including the New Zealand and London orchestras, as well as the choirs and vocalists), allowing to the fan to know more closely who performs the music, the voice or what instrument sounds in every moment of the film.

An excellent edition, probably with a content too much detailed for the common fan, who could get lost among so many analysis of themes, instruments, musical skills and staffs, but that presents a fabulous score in the dimension that it's deserved. The great service of this information is to understand how the music was composed, why a melody or instrument sounds in such-and-such moment, and it is that, for the fan who remained fascinated with Howard Shore's music, opens a door to understand many things of the world of the film scoring. And it is that, unlike other types of music, the film music has a lot of information associated with its creation process that is not usually published, as that it appears in this edition, and it would be very interesting that it was included in all the soundtracks as habitual form. It is also a way for made fans and hooking more people to this musical genre that has so much work in its production and composing process.

On the other hand, New Line Cinema created for free download the Annotated Score in the promotional site of the soundtrack, a document that accompanies to this edition of the soundtrack, which includes an analysis track by track, the lyrics of the tracks sung in five languages of the Middle-Earth (the Elvish languages of Quenya and Sindarin; Khuzdûl, the language of the Dwarves; Adûnaic, the oldest language of Men; and Black Speech, the language of Mordor) and translated into the English. In addition, it includes more information about the instruments used for Hobbiton's music, the Elves, the Dwarves, the Orcs and Mordor.